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I'm still amazed by the ridiculously fast pace at which technology and AI is growing.

But what are some ways that AI might be used for climate and nature solutions?

Today, Manus Zomerooti, who hosts the TED Radio Hour, sits down with AI changemaker

Amen Ra Masa Rishi to discuss what he thinks truly game-changing climate ideas might look like and how AI is playing

an increasingly large role in that space.

Okay, so tell us the story of how you got to be working with Bezos, your sort of trajectory to being here.

Yeah, it's really interesting that you ask that question

because sort of my pathway to the Bezos Earth Fund

is almost polar opposite to how we think about our pathway

to adopting and using AI to accelerate climate and nature solutions.

And I'll explain why really, really, and some quick points. I, undergrad, master's, doctorate computer science.

Computer scientists, research labs did the whole thing.

I was one of those computer scientists that believed in computer science,

you know, algorithm optimization.

Through a couple of personal things that took place, I realized that that was only a mechanism

by which I could do other things, which is have an impact.

So then I began to chase problems.

You mentioned here, I was the chief analytics officer for the city of New York.

How do we solve problems here? And then, you know, coming to the Basel Earth Fund, how do we

use AI computer science to solve climate and nature problems? And so I was AI in search of a problem

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